The video 'April Voice' recording the live voice of Shanghai where lockdown continues is sneaked through the censorship of the authorities and watched more than 400 million times
In Shanghai, China, where a full-scale urban blockade (lockdown) has been carried out since April 1, 2022 following the spread of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), citizens' voices about the city blockade The video ' April's Voice ' was released through the chat app. Authorities considered the video illegal and deleted it, but citizens continue to skillfully spread it, such as by converting the URL of the video into a QR code.
Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400m views
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April's voice is about 6 minutes including food distribution in Shanghai where lockdown continues, strict ban on going out, live voice of citizens showing the actual situation of hospitals, conversation with people who are said to be government officials. This is a short video. You can check the video with English subtitles from the following.
April Yuki Voice English Subtitle, Voice from Shanghai lockdown --YouTube
This video was released at 20:00 on April 22, 2022, Beijing time. Suddenly posted on WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, the video was reportedly played over 30 million times in about an hour, ending with words of dissatisfaction and a wish for a quick recovery in Shanghai. increase.
However, at this point, Chinese authorities manually censored the video, cracked down on reprinted videos, and censored search keywords. As a result, all sentences, BGM, photos, etc. related to the video were deleted, and even if you searched for words such as 'April', the situation did not appear in the results.
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However, Shanghai citizens and outsiders have been removed by spreading videos faster than censorship, embedding QR codes in movie posters, and directing others to cloud services to download. It is reported that he changed the shape many times and repeated reposting. As a result, the traffic indicating the number of views exceeded 400 million times in a day or two.
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